Raymond O'Neil Wells Jr. (born 1940), "Ronny", is an American mathematician, working in complex analysis in several variables as well as

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s. Wells received his BA from

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in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1965 from

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under the supervision of

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(''On the local holomorphic hull of a real submanifold in several complex variables''). He was Professor of Mathematics at Rice University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Mathematics. After becoming Professor Emeritus from Rice, he co-founded the

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. He was Professor of Mathematics and Vice-President of External Affairs. He has written books on twistors,

s, and analysis on complex manifolds. In 1970–71 and 1979–80, he was at the

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in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1974 to 1975 he was a

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and received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He was editor of the

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. He is a fellow of the

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Writings

*''Differential and Complex Analysis: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings'', Springer 2017. *''Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds'', Prentice–Hall 1973, 2nd Ed. Springer Verlag 1980
3rd Ed. 2008
*With Howard L. Resnikoffbr>''Mathematics in Civilization''
Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1973, 2nd Ed. Dover Publications 1984, 3rd Ed. Dover Publications 2015. *''Complex Geometry in Mathematical Physics'', Presses de L'Université Montréal, 1982. *With Howard L. Resnikoff

Springer Verlag 1998 *With Richard S. Ward
''Twistor Geometry and Field Theory''
Cambridge University Press 1990. *Editor ''Several Complex Variables'', two volumes, Symposium in Pure Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 1977

*With

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, ''Poincaré series and automorphic cohomology on flag manifolds'',

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105 (1977), 397–448. *With Daniel M. Burns and

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, ''Deformations of strictly pseudoconvex domains'',

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46 (1978), 237–253. * *With Michael G. Eastwood and

Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, Philosophy of science, philosopher of science and Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics i ...

, *

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